Holy smokes, Batman! It's a new ADVENTURETIMES, and it looks like this is the biggest one yet!

I went to California for a whole month, and I did a lot of stuff and saw a lot of things. HERE WE GO!

It started, of course, at an airport. Check it out, that's my airplane, and it's about to take off!

So I got on, and eventually I was in the air. Awesome, a window seat!

I flew to Atlanta, which was really hot. While there, I saw a bookstore which had a little casino inside it! Yeah, a casino in an airport! Like it's not expensive enough already!

Then I got on my second flight and went to California in just a few hours. Check out the view on that one!

THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS LOOK SO COOL! Who'd have thought that, huh?

I landed, and we drove up to Elk. It was a long drive, and it was very full of twists and turns. I slept at least a little bit, because it was somewhere around 3AM Michigan time when I finally got to their house!

The next day was the 4th of July, and what a full day that was. In the morning, we went to a parade. There were a ton of pictures to be had there, which you can check out at your own pace RIGHT HERE.

It was a pretty darned liberal crowd. Not a republican in sight! How weird!

Later, we went to the house of two of my aunt and uncle's friends. It had a nice view, like every house up there!

Also at this house was a bunch of fancy food: Lots of strong, soft cheeses to spread on fancy multi-grain crackers, some sushi, lots of wine (little did I realize how common the wine would become), and some other crap, like steak!

Of course, the view was equally spiffy from my aunt and uncle's house, which I saw for the first time the next day!
 

THEN I GOT TO WORK. We put up some drywall siding on the outside of their house, right below the roof. APPARENTLY it's called "facia board". I call it "stupid pain-in-the-neck drywall"
 

From left to right, it's Salvador, the worker hired for quite some time by my aunt and uncle, me, and this kid named Stillman, who only worked with us like twice. This is the best shot you'll see of either of them, since I'm irresponsible and don't take pictures of people (you don't have to proposition scenery to capture its image on film!).

So we worked and worked, and then it was the weekend. I decided to go into San Francisco to meet up with my friend Paris, whom I met playing Ragnarok Online, and also to see the Warped Tour that I guess is such a good show.

Here's how that trip went:

I left, and it was foggy. How foggy? Foggy enough to look pretty cool and only be mildly sight-impeding!

I got the heck outta there, and was all the way in my hotel room before I checked my cell phone! I checked it in my hotel room to find a messsage from my aunt, informing me that Paris had called, and that the Warped Tour was in fact sold out! Oh no! Incidentally, the view from that hotel room (which I promptly returned for a full cash refund) was horrible. It was a highway blocked by a tree blocked by a pole.

So what could I do?! I was all the way out there, I had to do something worthwhile! I went to a park!


 
 

After that, I still had a whole evening ahead of me! I continued down the highway into San Francisco, no matter that the concert was sold out. I crossed the bridge
 

and drove around. I saw in front of me something bright, something weird, something remarkably characteristic of San Francisco. I had to check it out.
 
 
 

I left San Francisco soon after that, went home, and worked for another week, until... I WENT BACK TO SAN FRANCISCO! This time, I was going to meet Ayla, another acquaintance from online, resident of California. I got a hotel room and was prepared to spend the weekend in the city. And I did! My hotel room was wack, but it was only $45 a night! It was very dirty, and they had the same piece of art all over the building.

But, San Francisco refused to be crappy, and I found some cool things out there! One of them was the infamous Nob Hill, a portion of Lombard street which was spruced up more than a little bit.

There was a cool cathedral and a little park, which was what my dad stared at as he ate lunch when he worked at a liquor store (that I was standing in front of to take this picture) here when he was younger.
 

Also there was this tower. Tall and tower-y. Neat.
 

Christopher Columbus, and Alcatraz!
 

A music store!

A crazy wig!
 

Graffiti!
 

And even the country of Vietnam!
 

OKAY OKAY SO THEN I WENT HOME, WOW, WHAT A PRETTY LAME WEEKEND, I NEVER FOUND AYLA AND I DIDN'T DO ANY WORTHWHILE SHOPPING.

I worked again for a while, which was fine still. Fine fine fine.

The next weekend, I decided not to drive into San Francisco just to get stood up by people I'd never met, so I stayed home! I went into the backyard for a while. Their backyard is not like most peoples' back yard. It's big.
 

And it's steep. I went down there and found weird dead stuff. Ahhh!!
 
 
 

There was a beach which they said was better. I could see it through some rocks, but they were just in such a way that I could have gotten down there, but would have had no hope for getting back up. So I just took a picture.
 

WE MADE PIZZA!!
 
 
 
 
 

Then there was fog over the view one day. Check it out!
 

Then a couple nights later, we went to see Superman Returns at the little one-room theater. It's so small and cool, and going out of business.
 

I had a going away party, and since I'm irresponsible with photographing people, I got zero pictures of the friends of my aunt and uncle. Not a one. I got a picture of the sunset at that party, which went very fast.
 

And so, I was finished working after a month of being out there. Look at what I did!

Me and Bob (my uncle) put up the  last of some beams which would create a walkway up at that pseudo-second-story level.
 

We installed a concrete big-step/porch by the "Holiday Inn" door.
 

I dug a propane ditch for the line.
 

I installed soffits and recessed lighting.
 

Lots of soffits. Soffits everywhere.
 

This is where I ate lunch every day, and where my Aunt and Uncle would have been living had we not been borrowing an unoccupied house that belonged to friends of theirs.
 
 
 

We moved insulation (miserable work, by the way).
 

We installed all these walls!

And then I got outta there, once and for all.

I took a picture of the computer at the house where I was staying (just because it blew my mind).

And then we left. I took a picture of Bob and Luanne just before they left and I got on a bus for San Francisco.

AND THEN I WENT TO SAN FRANCISCO FOR THE COOLEST TWO DAYS OF THE MONTH. WOOOOOOOOOOO. WOOO.

I stayed in an awesome 4-star hotel, the Hyatt, for the same price as the cockroach-hotel-nightmare-place from before. It was cool.

I saw an Apple store, which was massive, as well as awesome.

I saw a Del Taco, which was pretty interesting. And I went shopping. I spent $200 on a jacket from Diesel which I consider my grand souvenier. Everything else I bought was just regular ol' shoppin', like I'd do in Michigan. I'll be sure to show  you the jacket sometime, though.

I saw a cool sign, and had to photograph it. Look!

Outside of the 20-foot radius, illegal activities are, well... Legal?

And of course, everyone loves the FRENCH CONNECTION UNITED KINGDOM.

And with that, the camera went off and stayed off. I took no pictures of the flight home, or anything since arriving safely in Michigan.

It's because I was very tired. I am still very tired.

BUT WHAT A MONTH. WOWIE.

The weather there is way better than it is here. That's fact.

And I'm done writing this horribly long adventure. ENJOY IT 'TIL IT HURTS.